WTA Feb 8-14: Paris Indoor & Pattaya       entries: Dubai-Memphis-Bogota - Acapulco-Kuala Lumpur - Monterrey - Indian Wells

GDF Suez Open, Paris, FRA PREMIER $700,000 30m/32q/16d indoor: hard (Greenset) Live Scores - in popup window draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP draw & results, .html - videos pics: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA Paris: weather radar - forecast #7 E Dementieva, #12 F Pennetta #15 Y Wickmayer, #18 F Schiavone Pattaya Women's Open, THA INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d outdoor: hard Live Scores - in popup window draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP pics: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA Bangkok Post: Sports Pattaya: weather forecast #9 V Zvonareva, #25 S Lisicki #40 V Dushevina, #48 Y Shvedova

Paris: #29 Elena Vesnina 5'7¾" 132lb RH 2H-BH Paris: #34 Agnes Szavay 5'7" 139lb RH 2H-BH     tennis.quickfound.net tourney page: Paris Indoor & Pattaya

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On Monday in Paris, in the 1st round of the GDF Suez Open, 23-year-old 8th-seeded #29 Elena Vesnina from Sochi, Russia, defeated the 2009 Warsaw champ, 20-year-old #54 Alexandra Dulgheru from Bucharest, Romania, 6-1, 6-4 (photo shown).     Also on Monday in Paris, the 2009 champ in Budapest, 21-year-old unseeded #34 Agnes Szavay of Hungary (residence: Wolkersdorf, Austria), won the unfun way, defeating 21-year-old #55 Olga Govortsova from Minsk, Belarus, 6-3, 1-0 retired when Olga could no longer continue due to illness (Agnes is shown after winning a point during the match). WTA SCOREBOARD: Paris & Pattaya City     ranks are for the previous week s=seed, #=rank, *=upset, LL=lucky loser     How do players get into the "draw"? Paris, 1st Rd Mon-Wed noon losers' prize: $4,580 US; points: 1 #15 s3 Yanina Wickmayer BEL v #82 wc Petra Martic CRO Wed #18 s4 Francesca Schiavone ITA v #123 q Vesna Manasieva RUS Tue c1 m4 #21 s5 Aravane Rezai FRA v #101 q Evgenia Rodina RUS Wed #22 s6 Shahar Peer ISR v #65 Alizé Cornet FRA Tue cC m5 7pm+ #24 s7 Virginie Razzano FRA v #44 Patty Schnyder SUI Tue cC m3 #29 s8 Elena Vesnina RUS d #54 Alexandra Dulgheru ROU 6-1, 6-4 Mon #31 Alisa Kleybanova RUS v #76 wc Julie Coin FRA Tue cC m6 eve2 #34 Agnes Szavay HUN d #55 Olga Govortsova BLR 6-3, 1-0 retired Mon #38 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS d #43 Iveta Benesova CZE 6-1, 6-0 Tue #39 Sorana Cirstea ROU v #53 Melanie Oudin USA Tue cC m2 #46 Lucie Safarova CZE v #171 sr59 Tamira Paszek AUT Tue c1 m2 #49 Andrea Petkovic GER v #427 sr20 Katarina Srebotnik SLO 7-5, 3-0 Tue #52 Timea Bacsinszky SUI v #88 q Karolina Sprem CRO Tue c1 m4 #57 Tathiana Garbin ITA v #71 q Iona Raluca Olaru ROU Tue c1 m3 Paris, 2nd Rd Wed-Thu noon losers' prize: $8,590 US; points: 60 #7 s1 Elena Dementieva RUS v #38 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS #12 s2 wc Flavia Pennetta ITA v #31 Kleybanova OR #76 Coin #15 Wickmayer OR #82 wc Martic v #34 Agnes Szavay HUN #18 Schiavone OR #123 Manasieva v #46 Safarova OR #171 Paszek #21 Rezai OR #101 Rodina v #49 Petkovic OR #427 Srebotnik #22 Peer OR #65 Cornet v #52 Bacsinszky OR #88 Sprem #24 Razzano OR #44 Schnyder v #39 Cirstea OR #53 Oudin #29 s8 Elena Vesnina RUS v #57 Garbin OR #71 Olaru Paris, QFs Fri 2:20pm losers' prize: $15,925 US; points: 120 Paris, SFs Sat 2:30pm losers' prize: $30,000 US; points: 200 Paris, Final Sun after doubles, 3pm+ loser's prize: $56,000 US; points: 320 winner's prize: $107,000 US; points: 470 Paris, Doubles Final Sun m1 12:30pm losers' prize: $17,800 US winners' prize: $34,000 US Paris, Qual Finals, Mon Feb 8 noon losers' prizes: q1 $700 1pt; q2 $1,320 8pts; q3 $2,460 12pts; qualifier 20 points *#123 Vesna Manasieva RUS d #60 Barbora Zalavova Strycova CZE 6-3, 6-0 #71 Iona Raluca Olaru ROU d #119 Darya Kustova BLR 6-3, 7-6(3) #88 Karolina Sprem CRO d #114 Renata Voracova CZE 6-1, 6-3 #101 Evgenia Rodina RUS d #134 Zuzana Kucova SVK 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 Paris, Withdrawals #1 Serena Williams USA injury #41 Melinda Czink HUN Pattaya, 1st Rd Mon-Wed 3pm loser's prize: $1,725 US; points: 1 #9 s1 Vera Zvonareva RUS d #118 Ksenia Pervak RUS 6-3, 6-2 Tue #25 s2 Sabine Lisicki GER d #95 Akgul Amanmuradova UZB 6-0     retired—right abdominal strain Mon #40 s3 Vera Dushevina RUS v #128 Galina Voskoboeva KAZ Wed #48 s4 Yaroslava Shvedova KAZ d #91 Ayumi Morita JPN 6-2, 6-4 Tue #50 s5 Sybille Bammer AUT v #363 sr83 Marina Erakovic NZL Wed #59 s6 Sania Mirza IND v #79 Tatjana Malek GER Wed #62 s7 Kimiko Date Krumm JPN v #97 Anastasia Rodionova AUS Wed #67 s8 Julia Goerges GER d #216 q Anna Gerasimou GRE 6-4, 6-4 Tue #72 Alberta Brianti ITA d #166 q Sacha Jones NZL 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 Tue #74 Anna Chakvetadze RUS d #78 Jill Craybas USA 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 Mon #77 Alla Kudryavtseva RUS v #87 Tamarine Tanasugarn THA 1-5 Tue #94 Kai-Chen Chang TPE d #408 wc Varatchaya Wongteanchai THA 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 Tue #100 Yung-Jan Chan TPE v #206 q Yi-Miao Zhou CHN Tue c3 m3 #121 Ekaterina Bychkova RUS v #398 q Nudnida Luangnam THA 6(4)-7, 6-1, 3-3 Tue #139 Chanelle Scheepers RSA d #413 wc N Lertcheewakarn THA 6(9)-7, 6-4, 6-4 Mon #186 Sesil Karatantcheva KAZ v #264 wc Suchanun Viratprasert THA 6-1, 2-4 Tue Pattaya, 2nd Rd Wed-Thu 3pm loser's prize: $2,950 US; points: 30 #9 s1 Vera Zvonareva RUS v #72 Alberta Brianti ITA #25 s2 Sabine Lisicki GER v #77 Kudryavtseva OR #87 Tanasugarn #40 Dushevina OR #128 Voskoboeva v #121 Bychkova OR #398 Luangnam #48 s4 Yaroslava Shvedova KAZ v #139 Chanelle Scheepers RSA #50 Bammer OR #363 Erakovic v #94 Kai-Chen Chang TPE #59 Mirza OR #79 Malek v #100 Chan OR #206 Zhou #62 Date Krumm OR #97 Rodionova v #74 Anna Chakvetadze RUS #67 s8 Julia Goerges GER v #186 Karatantcheva OR #264 Viratprasert Pattaya, QFs Fri 3pm loser's prize: $5,340 US; points: 70 Pattaya, SFs Sat 3pm loser's prize: $10,200 US; points: 130 Pattaya, Final Sun 3pm loser's prize: $19,000 US; points: 200 winner's prize: $37,000 US; points: 280 Pattaya, Doubles Final Sun after singles loser's prize: $5,750 US winner's prize: $11,000 US Pattaya, Qual Finals, Mon Feb 8 2pm losers' prizes: q1 $265 1pt; q2 $460 6pts; q3 $860 10pts; qualifier 16 points #166 Sacha Jones NZL d #679 Nicha Lertpitaksinchai THA 5-4 retired *#206 Yi-Miao Zhou CHN d #196 Tomoko Yonemura JPN 6-0, 6-2 #216 Anna Gerasimou GRE d #510 Nungadda Wannasuk THA 6-4, 6-3 *#398 Nudnida Luangnam THA d #353 Yi-Fan Xu CHN 6-1, 6-3 Pattaya, Withdrawals #37 Maria Kirilenko RUS #51 Shuai Peng CHN reportedly had surgery #69 Stefanie Voegele SUI #80 Anastasija Sevastova LAT #92 Viktoriya Kutuzova UKR #96 Jelena Dokic AUS   WTA Feb 15-21: Dubai, Memphis, Bogota Dubai Tennis Champ's, Dubai, UAE PREMIER 5 $2,000,000 56m/32q/28d outdoor: hard (DecoTurf II) live video Live Scores draws: WTA pics: Y!: sports - news | tourney - WTA video - audio | Dubai: weather #1 S Williams, #3 C Wozniacki Cellular South Cup, Memphis, TN INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d indoor: hard (Plexipave) Live Scores draws: WTA pics: Y!: sports - news | tourney - WTA #16 M Sharapova, #53 M Oudin Copa Colsanitas, Bogota, COL INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d outdoor: red clay Live Scores draws: WTA pics: Y!: sports - news | tourney video | Bogota: weather forecast #35 G Dulko, #42 C Suárez Navarro     The Dubai, Memphis & Bogota draws are not yet available as of this writing (qualifying draws are usually up on the Friday before the tourney begins, main draws on Saturday, sometimes later). The links are above for your convenience when the draws become available. tennis.quickfound.net tourney page: Paris Indoor & Pattaya Belgrade, Serbia: #4 Svetlana Kuznetsova 5' 8½" 161lb RH 2H-BH Lievin, France: #53 Melanie Oudin 5'6" 130lb RH 2H-BH   WTA Feb 6-7 2010 Fed Cup QFs Fed Cup World Group QFs (Round 1): Live Scores - in popup window Italy 4 at Ukraine 1 - Germay 2 at CZE 3 - Russia 3 at Serbia 2 - USA 4 at France 1 World Group II: Live Scores | Spain 2 at Australia 3 Belgium 3 at Poland 2 - Argentina 1 at Estonia 4 - China 2 at Slovakia 3 Zonal Groups: 2010 Zonal Venues Asia/Oceania - Americas - Europe/Africa brackets-results - news | pics: DL - Y!: sports - news | mp3 audio: interviews - "Player"     On Sunday in Belgrade, Serbia, in the 1st round (quarterfinals) of the 2010 Fed Cup, in the deciding doubles "rubber" of the Russia versus Serbia "tie," the 2009 French Open champion, 24-year-old #4 Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia, and her teammate from Moscow, 20-year-old #31 Alisa Kleybanova, defeated 24-year-old #8 (and former #1) Jelena Jankovic from Belgrade, Serbia, and her teammate, 22-year-old #23 (and former #1) Ana Ivanovic, 6-1, 6-4 (Svetlana is shown during her singles match against Jelena Jankovic).     Serbia had taken a 2-1 lead over Russia when Jelena defeated Svetlana in the first match of the day, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. But Alisa then evened the score at 2-2 by defeating Ana, 6-2, 6-3. The win in doubles gave 2004, 2005, 2007 & 2008 Fed Cup champions Russia the overall win over World Group rookies Serbia, 3-2, and thus Russia again advances to the Fed Cup semifinals.     Meanwhile, in Lievin, France, in the France versus USA World Group "tie," a 2009 US Open quarterfinalist, 18-year-old #53 Melanie Oudin from Marietta, Georgia, put the USA into the Fed Cup semifinals by defeating 27-year-old #76 Julie Coin from Amiens, France, 7-6(3), 6-4 (Melanie is shown after match point).     Melanie said: "In the beginning, I was a bit nervous and she was serving great, but as the match advanced I got more and more confident, and I’m obviously thrilled that I was able to allow the US to go to the semis." ITF story     Julie said: "I had the break in the first but I was not able to hold on to it. It’s really too bad because I felt good out there. I took risks and I really wanted to give a point to my team and give Pauline a chance to level the tie."     Melanie's win gave the USA a insurmountable 3-0 lead over France, and clinched a place for her team in the Fed Cup semis. The two remaining matches were academic: France's Pauline Parmentier defeated Christina McHale of the USA, 6-4, 6-4, and, in doubles, Liezel Huber & Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the USA defeated Alizé Cornet & Stephanie Cohen-Aloro of France, 6-2, 6-3. The overall final score: USA 4, France 1.     • In the 2010 Fed Cup semifinals, April 24-25, USA will host Russia, and defending Fed Cup champions Italy will host the Czech Republic.     • In the World Group Playoffs, also April 24-25, 1st round World Group losers France, Serbia, Germany, & Ukraine will play against World Group II winners Australia, Belgium, Estonia & Slovakia. The 4 winners of these "ties" will be in the World Group in 2011 (along with the USA, the Czech Republic, Russia, & Italy), and the 4 losers will be in World Group II next year.     • In Zonal Group play on Saturday, Japan, Sweden, Slovenia, & Canada won their promotional playoffs, and will advance to the World Group II playoffs on April 24-25, where they will face the losers of this weekend's World Group II matchups: Spain, China, Poland, & Argentina. The winners of those "ties" on Apr 24-25 will comprise half of World Group II next year, the other half of the 2011 WGII being the losers of the same weekend's playoffs between this year's WGII winners and World Group 1st round losers. tennis.quickfound.net "tourney" page: Fed Cup   Fed Cup mp3 Audio Interviews: Sat Nov 7: Jelena Jankovic d Svetlana Kuznetsova - Alisa Kleybanova d Ana Ivanovic - Kuznetsova & Kleybanova d Jankovic & Ivanovic | Lucie Hradecka d Andrea Petkovic Francesca Schiavone d Kateryna Bondarenko - Flavia Pennetta d Alona Bondarenko Melanie Oudin d Julie Coin Fri Nov 6: Jelena Jankovic d Alisa Kleybanova - Svetlana Kuznetsova d Ana Ivanovic Petra Kvitova d Andrea Petkovic - Anna-Lena Groenefeld d Lucie Safarova Alona Bondarenko d Francesca Schiavone | Bethanie Mattek-Sands d Alizé Cornet Fri Nov 5 Draw Day: Jelena Jankovic - Ana Ivanovic - Svetlana Kuznetsova - Alisa Kleybanova - Vera Dushevina & Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | Lucie Safarova - Petra Kvitova - Anna-Lena Groenefeld - GER Cap B Rittner | USA Cap MJ Fernandez Pre-1st Round: Jelena Jankovic - Mary Joe Fernandez - Alona Bondarenko - Agnieszka Radwanska Finetune streaming music player popup:  18 playlists, 45+ full tracks each, 1300+ tracks total, free music, no registration, no commercials, no gimmicks.   WTA Jan 18-30: Australian Open Melbourne: #1 Serena Williams 5'9" 135lb RH 2H-BH Melbourne: #NR Justine Henin 5' 5¾" 126lb RH 1H-BH Melbourne: 5th Aussie Open Title 12th Grand Slam Singles Title Australian Open, Melbourne, AUS Grand Slam - event stats 128 players - outdoor: hard matches: Live Scores - OOP - results draws: WS, .pdf - mixed doubles pics: DL | Y!: sports - news | WTA | interviews 2010 WTA video & audio interviews click for Australian Open tourney page, with 263+ photos cropped & enhanced, and many quotes       On Saturday in Melbourne, in the final of the 2010 Australian Open, the 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009 AO champ, 28-year-old top-seeded #1 Serena Williams from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, won again, defeating the 2004 Aussie Open champ, 27-year-old unranked former #1 Justine Henin of Belgium (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco) 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 (photos shown).     In US dollars, Serena's prize is $1,890,630, Justine's is $945,315.     Serena won 90 points, Justine won 85. Serena converted 6 of 11 break points against Justine, while hitting 32 winners with 37 unforced errors (Justine: 5 of 16 break points, 28 winners, 32 errors). match stats - BBC game-by-game< - Eurosport game-by-game     Serena said: "[Justine] took me to the umpteenth level. She clearly hasn't like lost a step at all since she's been gone... I don't think I served excellent. But I think when it was necessary, I served really well. And especially even in the first game, I think that first game was like 10 minutes. That game was important. I ended up holding. She had a couple breakpoints. I hit a couple bombs at the right time... Honestly, the longer the match goes the better my serve gets. So I felt like when I walked out there in the third set I was like, Okay, I'm going to start serving better." postmatch interview     Justine said: "Of course disappointed, I mean, when you lose in the final of a Grand Slam, especially in three sets, and I got a few opportunities that I haven't been able to take. But this feeling of disappointment cannot take advantage on all the things I've done in the last few weeks. And it's just more than what I could expect for. I just have to remember that...     "I got a lot of breakpoints in the first set, and it was very difficult for me to break [Serena] in the first. And then the big opportunity in the beginning of the third set—I started to play much better at the end of the second, really aggressive. She was under pressure. She served unbelievable in that game. I was up 1‑Love in the third, and what happened if I could break her at that time... She served great at that time." postmatch interview     Serena now leads Justine 8-6 in career matches. Their previous encounter had been on a hardcourt in the quarterfinals at Key Biscayne in 2008, when Serena won, 6-2, 6-0. Before that match Justine had defeated Serena three times in a row, all in Grand Slam quarterfinals, most recently on a hardcourt in the quarterfinals of the 2007 US Open, 7-6(3), 6-1.     12-time Grand Slam tourney champion Serena is now 36-14 in WTA singles finals. She won the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and WTA Championships titles last year. Serena's career singles match record is 459-98. She had a 50-12 match record in singles in 2009, and is 11-1 so far this season, losing only in the Sydney final, to Elena Dementieva.     7-time Grand Slam tourney champ Justine was playing in her 12th match since returning this month after a year-and-a-half retirement. She is now 41-18 in WTA singles finals. Prior to her 2008 retirement, Justine spent 117 weeks as #1 in the WTA. She won her first WTA singles title in Antwerp in 1999, and her most recent in Antwerp in 2008, and won the 2003, '05, '06, & '07 French Opens, the 2003 & '07 US Opens, and the 2004 Australian Open. She has a 503-109 career record in singles matches. Justine now is 10-2 this season, losing only to Serena, and, in the Brisbane final, to Kim Clijsters.     Men's final: s1 Roger Federer SUI d s5 Andy Murray GBR 6-3, 6-4, 7-6(11)     The news.quickfound.net Australia page carries a 155-year-old New York Times article with a fairly detailed description of Melbourne in 1853.     The 2010 Australian Open tourney page holds 263 choice photos, cropped & processed, and many postmatch player quotes.   WTA Jan 10-16: Sydney & Hobart Sydney: #5 Elena Dementieva 5'11" 141lb RH 2H-BH Hobart: #33 Alona Bondarenko 5'6" 130lb RH 2H-BH Medibank Int'l, Sydney, AUS PREMIER $600,000 30m/48q/16d outdoor: hard Live Scores - Radio | draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP pics: DL | Y!: sports - news | WTA Moorilla Int'l, Hobart, Tasmania, AUS INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d outdoor: hard Live Scores draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP pics: DL | WTA     On Friday in Sydney, Australia, in the final of the Medibank International, last year's Sydney champion, 28-year-old 5th-seeded #5 Elena Dementieva of Russia (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), won again, handily defeating the 2009 Australian Open and Wimbledon champion, 28-year-old top-seeded #1 Serena Williams from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, 6-3, 6-2 (Elena is shown after match point & with trophy). Elena's prize is $98,500; Serena's is $53,100.     In the Hobart, Tasmania, final on Saturday, 25-year-old 4th-seeded #33 Alona Bondarenko from Kharkov, Ukraine, defeated 22-year-old 2nd-seeded #31 Shahar Peer from Maccabim, Israel, 6-2, 6-4 (Alona is shown with the Tasmania-shaped woodwork after the match). Alona's prize is $37,000; Shahar's is $19,000.     The Sydney & Hobart tourney page holds 122 choice photos from this week's tourneys.     The Brisbane, Auckland, Perth & Hong Kong tourney page holds 156 choice photos from the new season.   WTA Aug 31-Sept 13: US Open Flushing Meadows: #9 Caroline Wozniacki 5'10" 128lb RH 2H-BH Flushing Meadows: #NR Kim Clijsters 5'8½" 150lb RH 2H-BH Flushing Meadows: 2nd US Open Title in 5th GS singles final US Open Flushing Meadows, NY Grand Slam $21,600,000 128 players | outdoor: hard | stats Draws: WS pdf - WTA - mix doub Women: qualif - singles - doub photos: Y!: sports - BBC | CBS | WTA | Video: highlights - '09 WTA videos interviews click for US Open tourney page, with 269 photos cropped & enhanced, and many quotes        On Sunday night at Flushing Meadows, in the final of the 2009 US Open, the 2005 champ, who returned to play this summer after a two-year retirement, 26-year-old unranked (and former #1) Kim Clijsters from Bree, Belgium, won her 2nd US Open title by defeating this year's New Haven champ, 19-year-old 9th-seeded #9 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark (res: Monte Carlo, Monaco), 7-5, 6-3.     Kim's prize is $1,600,000; Caroline's is $800,000 (Caroline & Kim are shown during the match, and Kim with the hardware at Times Square on Monday). tennis.quickfound.net tourney page: 2009 US Open   WTA June 22-July 5 Wimbledon Wimbledon: #2 Serena Williams 5'9" 135lb RH 2H-BH Wimbledon: #3 Venus Williams 6'1" 160lb RH 2H-BH Wimbledon: 3rd Wimbledon Title 11th GS Singles Title The Championships Wimbledon, GBR Grand Slam Prize$: £11,812,000 (all events) 128 players - outdoor: grass matches: statistics - Live Scores - OOP - results draws: W sing, pdf - mix doub - women's: qualif. - singles - doub pics: Y! sport - news - UK - WTA | free intv & hlite videos - wallpaper click for 2009 Wimbledon tourney page, with quotes & 198+ choice photos, cropped & enhanced       Williams' Arena: On Saturday in London, in the final of The Championships at Wimbledon, the 2002 & '03 champ, 27-year-old 2nd-seeded #2 Serena Williams from Palm Beach Gardens, FL, won a third time by defeating her older sister, the 2000, '01, '05 '07 & 0 champ, 28-year-old 3rd-seeded #3 Venus Williams, 7-6(3), 6-2 (photo shown). tennis.quickfound.net tourney page: 2009 Wimbledon   WTA: May 24-Jun 7   French Open Roland Garros: #7 Svetlana Kuznetsova 5' 8½" 161lb RH 2H-BH Roland Garros: #1 Dinara Safina 5'11½" 154½lb RH 2H-BH Roland Garros: 2nd Grand Slam Title 11th WTA Singles Title French Open Roland Garros, FRA Grand Slam outdoor: red clay - results - stats draws: all WTA, pdf - xd - women's: qual - singles - doub   men's: qual - singles - doub photos: Y! sports   Y! news - Y! France | WTA - videos: mp4 downloads - embedded text: news - interviews - information site for players - 2009 RG Players Guide, .pdf click for 2009 French Open tourney page, with quotes & 256+ choice photos, cropped & enhanced       On Saturday at Roland Garros, in the final of the 2009 French Open, the 2004 US Open champion, 23-year-old 7th-seeded # 7 Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), won a second Grand Slam singles title, defeating last year's French Open finalist, 23-year-old top-seeded # 1 Dinara Safina of Russia (res: also Monaco), 6-4, 6-2 (photos shown). tennis.quickfound.net tourney page: 2009 French Open

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Sports tennis photo gallery to find them, or, alternatively, search for a player profile at Yahoo! Sports, then click on the "Photos" link at their profile page, to get the pics. Only the AFP pics are extra large, and not all of them.     The Tennis.com Photo Gallery, displays the same AP photos as ESPN, with the same quality and size (512 px max), and is, unfortunately, not searchable. Yahoos! of other nations sometimes include photos not shown on US Yahoo! Also, the UK Yahoo! includes some photos (from the EMPICS agency) that are over 30 days old, unlike the other Yahoos!. The Yahoo links below are category links, instead of keyword links, so if you just want to see all tennis photos click on the links instead of using the search form. Search Yahoo! UK Tennis Photos: find this: Search Yahoo! France Tennis Photos: find this: Int'l Yahoo! Tennis Photos: ARG - AUS-NZ - BRA - ESP - GER IND - ITA - JAP - MEX - SGP CBS Sportsline: Tennis News Photos carries tennis news photos from Getty Images that are not available from Yahoo! or ESPN, plus the same AP pics. The pics are usually larger and sharper than Yahoo US, but smaller than ESPN's. Unfortunately, the Sportsline photo gallery is not searchable, and the photos sometimes on their server for less than one day. BBC Tennis News Photos are in a slide-show format, and do not link to larger versions. Archived WTA Player Photos: The QuickFound.net Photo Search page has direct entries for 9 online photo search engines, including Google, Yahoo, FAST, AltaVista, and Lycos, all on one page. MFW Web Tennis displays oncourt player photos and quicktime animations attributed to specific tourneys and matches. wtennisphotos.com displays player photos by Jean-Sebastien Marceau. WTA Tour Photo Gallery "SE-WTATour" Photostream at Flickr "tlaenPix" Photostream at Flickr Female Tennis Players picture galleries. WTN Photos Inside Tennis Photos by Fans Sportal.au Tennis Photo Galleries Sporting-Heroes.net has 550 large photos of WTA & ATP players, including many of players of the 70s & 80s that are difficult to find online. Current Tennis TV Listings: • Tennis One: Tennis TV This Month • ESPN & ESPN2: Tennis Today • Tennis.com: TV Schedule • The Tennis Channel: Schedule • Sky Sports: Live Tennis • TV Guide   Sports Sites' Tennis News Pages: CNN-Sports Illustrated: Tennis covers tennis with AP (and sometimes Reuters) stories. Occasionally the stories have a mid-size photo or two, but not as many as they used to, and the pics are no longer linked to large versions. BBC Sport: Tennis reduced the length of most stories in 2005. They often have small photos, but never large ones. They also have an online Tennis Academy. CBS Sportsline.com: Tennis coverage is basically AP, but you have to find photos on a separate page (listed above). ESPN: Tennis is basically AP; they have improved their layout & navigation.   Tennis-Specific Sites: Tennis.com did a complete makeover of their website in 2005, again in 2006, and again in 2010, and Chrissie forgot to call and tell me the URLs had changed every time. The site has statistics, feature stories, results, events information, and hundreds of excellent tennis instruction articles and tips from the publishers of Tennis Magazine.     You can search the very useful feature article, "Your Game" instruction, and message board forum sections of the Tennis.com website with this form. Try to be specific--if you simply search for "backhand" you will get countless results, all the articles in which the word "backhand" is used. find this:   in: articles instruction forums   TennisForm.com is "the definitive online information source for serious tennis bettors." Jiro's Tennis Page, which focuses on Thai players, has much useful general WTA & ATP info, including main draw entry lists for many WTA, ATP, and ITF tourneys. Also try mytennis.it for entry info. Pro Tennis Fan is a blog site covering both the WTA & ATP, with good player-specific weblogs for many WTA players. Peter Bodo's Tennis World Blog Bob Larson's Tennis News Tennis Live is an all-tennis sports talk radio show. Tennis-Pool.com is a 100% free online fantasy tennis game, where you can pick and operate your own teams of WTA & ATP players. String Forum has a database of info on over 1400 tennis racket strings. Racquet Research although not recently updated, has good pages such as "Introduction to Racquet Science," and racquet selection help. Operation Doubles: Tennis Doubles Strategy and Tactics covers the three basic doubles formations/strategies, position, switching, poaching, and much more. Go Tennis requires free registration, but they are loaded with tennis news and info. Tennis Week has a very large home page (long load), but has match summaries (and an archive of them) you might not find elsewhere. Tenniscom.com is a comprehensive tennis site for Spanish readers. College Tennis Online has current collegiate scores, news, and features. College and Junior Tennis adds scores, news and info from and about Junior tournaments. JuniorTennis.com features up-to-date coverage of juniors tourneys, plus extensive junior players info and photos.   WTA Player-Specific Sites: Martina Hingis & Anna Kournikova have their own subdomains at quickfound.net. DSafina.com official DinaraSafina.com SerenaWilliams.com official Elena Dementieva official jj-jelenajankovic.com official JelenaJankovic.net ElevenByVenus.com official Zvonareva.ru official Ana Ivanovic official VikaAzarenkaTennis.com official CarolineWozniacki.dk official MariaSharapova.com official MariaWorld (Sharapova- 4700+ photos) Sharapova Masha (good bio info) Kuznetsova Fanpage Patty-Schnyder.ch official, in German DanielaHantuchova.com official Anna Chakvetadze official Anna's World (Chakvetadze) alize-cornet.com official en.Nadia-Petrova.ru official Maria Kirilenko official Agnes Szavay official - in Hungarian NicoleVaidisova.com Golovin Attitude Tatiana-Golovin.net Ashley-Harkleroad.com K-lina.com (Karolina Sprem) Mary-Pierce.org Jelena-Dokic.com Anastasia-Myskina.com Myskina.ru official, in Russian Jennifer Capriati Monica-Seles.com KimClijsters.be official 100% Justine Henin official Justine-Henin.net (many photos)   WTA Specific Sites: The WTA Tour since 1996, which received a major makeover in May, 2007, provides match scores and other stats for all WTA players & events, including head-to-head matchup info, updated weekly. Blogspot WTA Women's Tennis Apparel is a blog about what the ladies are wearing. From January 2000 through March 2001, CNNSI published the Kristina Brandi Tennis Diary, a "diary" kept every 2 weeks by WTA player Kristina Brandi, showing what life is like for touring WTA players.   Tennis History: "The 700-year-old French game of tennis, traditionally as much a lady's as a man's game, was introduced to the U.S. in 1874 by a woman, Mary E. Outerbridge..." See more from this Sept. 9, 1946, TIME Magazine cover story on women's tennis and 1946 Wimbledon and Forest Hills champ Pauline Betz now on the Tennis Articles page. TIME Magazine, May 23, 1955:     In her first column, the San Diego Union's new Women's Sports Editor Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, retired as the world's greatest lady tennis star at a ripe old 21, showed that sports punditry is as easy for her as smashing a tennis ball down an opponents throat.     Lamented Little Mo in great pontifical style: "[On] the American scene today ... we're reducing sports to a cluster of numbers on a board ... We ... are expecting our champions to be stadium automatons, the human equivalents of the balls in a super pinball machine ... We're watching for the numbers to light up and forgetting the play." TIME articles: Maureen Connolly's 1st US Open & Wimbledon titles Book Excerpt: The Courts of Babylon: Dawn of the Pro Tennis Tours more tennis history book excerpts in the nav menu (top of page) WTA Top 20 Rankings 1989-2006 International Tennis Hall of Fame WTA Historical Bios Lawn Tennis 1873-1938 Pictorial History of Tennis 16-page .pdf Sportsline Tennis History includes a listing of Grand Slam champions, the winners of the most career singles titles, and more. The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club site still has some good Wimbledon history pages. The USOpen.org History has stats and year-by-year finals descriptions since 1968 (but nothing about the Forest Hills and Newport Casino US Nationals before the "Open era"). Other Tennis Stats & Records: Although crippled by intrusive advertising, Tennis Corner offers excellent single page summaries of ATP and WTA player statistics. And their WTA & ATP Results Archive 1968-2003 has records of ATP and WTA tournament champions and final scores going back to the mid-1970's, and for major tournaments back to 1968 (the first year of "Open" professional tennis).   Free Online Tennis Books: Lawn Tennis 1908 with a chapter by     Blanche Bingley Hillyard Lawn Tennis for Ladies 1910 by Dorothea K. Douglass Lambert Chambers Tennis for Women 1916 by     Molla Bjurstedt Mallory Lawn Tennis for Girls 1920 by     Suzanne Lenglen Lawn Tennis 1886 by James Dwight Game of Lawn Tennis 1888 by     "Cavendish" of The Field   Tennis Website Search: The DMOZ Open Directory searches for keywords in website titles and descriptions (not page content). You can limit your search to the Tennis links category, or search all sports links. find this: in: All Tennis College Tennis Tennis Players All Sports   Google Usenet Forums: rec.sport.tennis alt.tennis     Fans of Serbians Jelena Jankovic (who has one Serbian and one Montenegrin parent) and Ana Ivanovic might like to see the new Serbia News & Links page, which includes 2 articles by Frank G. Carpenter describing Belgrade & nearby farms in 1925, and the new Montenegro News & Links page, with three very interesting articles by David Ker, who climbed the Black Mountain to meet Prince Nikita in 1881.     If you are a coffee fan like Patty Schnyder, then you might enjoy the eighteen classic New York Times & Los Angeles Times coffee & tea articles from 1854 to 1916 at coffee.quickfound.net.     If you are a chocolate fan like Kim Clijsters, then you might enjoy the sixteen classic New York Times & Los Angeles Times chocolate, cocoa, sugar, candy & snack articles from 1891 to 1920 at chocolate.quickfound.net.     Apologies for the typographical errors on this page occasionally. These cut-and-paste errors result when faulty brain wiring impairs one person trying to keep up a large website. I try to keep errors to a minimum, but some always creep in.

WTA News; Tennis News

  News Briefs:

    (Feb 3, 2010) Former WTA #1 Martina Hingis will play a full schedule of World Team Tennis events next summer. Martina has committed to play 14 WTT matches this year; she will play for whatever team chooses her in the February 11 "marquee" player draft. In an AP phone interview, Martina also ruled out a return to WTA play "at this time," primarily due to the extensive travel required. AP story - hingis.quickfound.net

    (Jan 17, 2010) 29-year-old former WTA #1 Martina Hingis might return to WTA play. Martina defeated former #1 Lindsay Davenport 6-4, 6-4 in an exhibition match in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday.

    After the exhibition, reporters asked Martina if she might return to the WTA Tour. Martina said: I can not imagine a life without tennis. It's still so much fun for me. I'd like to play more exhibition games and see what happens. Past that, I just don't know at the moment."

    Asked if she, too, might return to WTA play, 33-year-old Lindsay said: "If I play again it will only be to selected events and only then for fun."

    Martina has won 43 WTA singles titles, including 5 Grand Slam titles, and 37 WTA doubles titles, and has a 548-133 record in WTA singles matches. Martina was banned from WTA & ITF tennis for 2 years in 2007 after failing a test for prohibited substances (which she vehemently denied doing), and announced her retirement after deciding not to appeal the ban. AFP story

    (Jan 8, 2010 revised) #9 Vera Zvonareva withdrew from an exhibition match against Victoria Azarenka in Hong Kong on Friday due to a recurrance of a right ankle injury. Vera said: "I had surgery at the end of last year and I had a problem after I played Ayumi [Morita] and I tweaked it a little bit and it is just too sore to compete tonight. I am enjoying my time in Hong Kong, but unfortunately it is not possible to play. But hopefully I can rest it another 24 hours and we will see how it goes and I hope I make it to the court for my mixed doubles tomorrow... [Vera did play mixed doubles on Saturday]
    "I am hopeful that I can be 100% recovered for the Australian Open. It is hard to say at the moment, but I am trying to take it as easy as possible so I can compete in the Australian Open." Press Association Sport story

    (Dec 23, 2009) Larry Ellison, the CEO of software manufacturer Oracle, has purchased the entire Indian Wells Tennis Garden Venue, and the rights to the annual WTA/ATP Indian Wells tournament. The previous owners were a group which included Charlie Pasarell and Raymond Moore (whose company, PM Sports Management, will continue to manage the tourney), George Mackin and Bob Miller of Tennis magazine, the United States Tennis Association, and former players Pete Sampras, Chris Evert and Billie Jean King. As of this writing, the tourney's principal sponsor will remain European financial giant BNP Paribas. KESQ story - Reuters story

(Dec 5, 2009) Former #1 Maria Sharapova defeated South & Central American #1 Gisela Dulko in two exhibition events in South America. The original schedule for the exhibitions was revised, and a match planned for Gisela's hometown, Buenos Aires, Argentina, was dropped.     On December 2, in Santiago, Chile, Maria defeated Gisela 6-1, 6-3, and on December 5 in Porto Feliz, Brazil, Maria won again, this time by a slim margin, 6-3, 3-6, (10-7).     Gisela defeated Maria at Wimbledon in 2009; Maria had won their two prior meetings. Maria & Gisela after their close match on Dec 5

    (Sept 22, 2009 revised) 27-year-old former WTA #1 Justine Henin announced on Tuesday that she will return to the WTA Tour in January. Justine made the announcement on Belgian television; prominent Belgian newspapers had earlier declared that Justine was ready to reveal her intention to return.
    Three months notice are required for players returning from retirement, to meet anti-doping rules, so Justine's return to WTA play will be in Australia next January. Justine will play exhbitions in Charleroi, Belgium, and in Dubai, to prepare for next year. Justine has accepted wild card entries for January's Brisbane International, Sydney International, and Australian Open; after that she will have earned ranking points in 3 tourneys (required minimum for an "entry ranking"). She intends to continue playing at least through the London Olympics in 2012, when she will be 30 years old.
    On her official website, Justine said: "After 15 months of absence, I am pleased to announce to you that I’ve decided to begin my second tennis career. I don’t want to describe it as a comeback. It’s a new life that opens for me."
    Justine retired on May 14, 2008. She had won 41 WTA singles titles, starting with Antwerp in 1999 and ending with Antwerp in 2008, including the 2003, '05, '06, & '07 French Open, the 2003 & '07 US Open, and the 2004 Australian Open. She had a 493-107 record in singles matches. AP story - AP story 2

Monica in Newport, July 11

(July 11, 2009) Former WTA # 1 Monica Seles was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame today. ESPN story     35-year-old Monica formally announced her retirement from pro tennis in 2008. Monica had a 595-122 won-lost record in singles, and won 53 WTA singles titles, 6 WTA doubles titles, and $14,891,762 in prize money.     Despite a 2-year gap in her career (after she was stabbed in the back by a fan in Germany in 1993), Monica won 9 Grand Slam singles titles, beginning with the 1990 French Open, and ending with the 1996 Australian Open.     Monica was still ranked in the top 10 in 2003 when she was forced to stop playing by a left foot stress fracture which never healed properly (the same type of injury that led the chronic back pain which prevents Anna Kournikova from playing). 1996 book excerpt: Monica, by Monica Seles

    (Feb 11, 2009) Maria Kirilenko, Daniela Hantuchova, and Tatiana Golovin are all featured in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, which is available online now.


    (Dec 14, 2008) Former WTA # 12 Tatiana Golovin will not play in the 2009 Australian Open due to ongoing back pain and inflammation at the "sacrospinalis-iliac crest".
    In the French magazine L'Equipe in November, 2008, Tatiana said: "As I haven’t played for almost one year, it is easy to say : 'Golovin is going to retire.' I can tell you now that it is not the case. I still have pain in my back, I don’t practice, but I am still totally hopeful to play again soon. It will be in a few weeks, months or even in one year, but my career is not over."
    Tatiana had surgery on March 12, 2008 to remove a cyst that was causing pain. While the doctors had the hood open, they decided to remove her appendix as well, just to be on the safe side. Tatiana hoped to be playing again by the French Open. Tatiana played one complete match at the German Open, then withdrew, one by one, from each subsequent tourney, as she never quite reached playable condition. golovin-attitude.com

    (Aug 28, 2006 updated 1/2007) # 4 Maria Sharapova has signed a new racquet endorsement contract with Prince which will pay her around $25 million dollars over the next 10 years. Maria's previous deal with Prince, a five-year contract, was signed when she was 14 years old, and due to expire. Maria currently uses Prince's O³ White model. The deal includes a base pay, plus incentives for high rankings and tournament performance.
    Maria also has endorsement contracts with Gatorade & Tropicana, Colgate - Palmolive, Motorola (expired in 2007), Parlux Fragrances, Canon, watchmaker TAG Heuer, Land Rover, Nike, and others, plus Japan-only deals with Honda & Pepsi, which make her the highest-paid female athlete in the world, earning an estimated $23 to $25 million a year.

    (Jan 5, 2005) The WTA has made a 6-year deal with mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson to become the primary WTA Tour global sponsor. The price? $88 million.

    (Jan 6, 2004 revised) Wimbledon will have a new retractable roof for Centre Court in place in 2009, officials announced. Construction will begin after The Championships in July, 2006. The 2007 Championships will be played with no roof at all (the current partial roof removed), a new fixed partial roof will be in place in 2008, and the retractable roof completed in 2009. The roof will take 10 minutes to deploy, so Centre Court rain delays of up to 30 minutes will still be possible, but the roof is being installed to assure TV networks of almost continuous coverage, even if it rains. The arena's capacity will also be increased from 13,800 to 15,000.
    AELTC Long-Term Plan - original BBC story.

2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open, and 2008 Australian Open champion Maria Sharapova of Russia is featured in the 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, which hit newsstands on Feb 14. Click on the photo to see the SI Swimsuit pages online, including 22 pics of Maria looking very nice.